Women Fight Church Fire

March is Women’s History Month. NY1920s always centers women’s history; this month we’ll do so a bit more emphatically.

One hundred years ago today … Women of the Helping Hand Mothers Club of the Collegiate Reformed Church worked together to put out a fire in their chapel.

*Daily News*, 15 March 1923, p. 12. *Library of Congress.*

The church was located at 416 W. 54th St (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

– Jonathan Goldman, March 14, 2023

TAGS: women, emergency, heroism, religion, charity.